Enlightenment E17, a lean, fast, modular and very extensible window manager for X11 that provides all the necessary packages to run a desktop, is now at version Alpha 6. The developers of Enlightenment E17 are not messing around and are churning out version after version. They are somewhat behind all the other comp…

4MLinux Allinone Edition, a Linux distro focusing on the following 4M editions: Maintenance (system rescue Live CD), Multimedia (e.g., playing video DVDs), Miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and Mystery (Linux games), is now at version 5.0 Beta. Highlights of 4MLinux Allinone Edition 5.0 Beta: • Wine has been updated to version 1.4.1; • Mozilla Firefox has been updated to version 17.0; • 4MLinux Allinone Edition BETA passed all the tests f…

Well half a year has passed since Linux Girl last wrote about the invasion of the tiny, Linux-powered PCs, and she’s delighted to report that the trend has shown no sign of slowing down. No indeed! “Tiny $57 PC is like the Raspberry Pi, but faster and fully open” is one headline that recently appeared, for example. “Meet the PengPod, a ‘true Linux’ tablet starting at $120″ is yet another.

Splashtop has expanded the reach of its remote desktop system to allow Ubuntu 12.04 systems to be streamed to mobile devices and is developing a multi-session streamer for many mobile users on one Ubuntu system
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Dovecot, an open source IMAP and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind, is now at version 2.1.11.

Highlights of Dovecot 2.1.11:

• The dovecot.index.cache file is no longer fully mapped to memory, thus allowing mail deliveries to work even if the file in question is large;
• userdb password lookups are now done by auth worker processes instead of auth master process;
• lmtp_rcpt_check_quota=yes…

(Submitted by Marc Paré, November 5, 2012) Kohei Yoshida is a well-known individual on the LibreOffice project. To many, he is considered as one of the core group of developers who have contributed to the steady development and code improvement of the project, and one of the leaders of the calc component. Kohei takes a […]

The Linux Foundation has announced a number of one-year project milestones for the OpenMAMA project that include important new code contributions, a fully open source software stack and the first commercial offering to result from the project.

OpenMAMA is an open source Middleware Agnostic Messaging API that provides an interface for passing data between high volume, low latency messaging applications.

Last week I shared some early benchmarks of the Samsung Chromebook while running Ubuntu Linux. The Samsung Chromebook is very interesting since it’s one of the few readily available computers on the market employing an ARM Cortex-A15 processor rather t…

DOOM 3 BFG Edition was officially released for the consoles and the Windows platform more than a month ago, but id Software hasn’t forgotten the Linux community and now they’ve also published the source code for the game.

The initial announcement was made in October by John Carmack on Twitter, but there was no other indication of the release date.

Bethesda and id Software have now published the source code for DOOM 3 BFG Edition on GitHub, under a GPL license. This m…

Bodhi Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution that features the Enlightenment desktop and a noticeably lack of included applications. It’s main goal is to offer a light-weight high-performing base on which to build your ideal desktop system. It recently turned two years old and founder Jeff Hoogland is looking back. It was two years ago November […]

ownCloud, the company responsible for the popular open source file sync and share software, has announced the closing of a second seed round, in which they secured $2.5 Million (€1.9 Million).

The company will use these funds to expand its business into the enterprise and education customer base, not to mention the service providers who are responsible for the implementation of file sync and share based on ownCloud.

For Ubuntu users, Splashtop Streamer offers a supercharged, high-performance alternative to Virtual Network Computing (VNC) and other remote desktop software. Due to its efficient protocol, algorithms and optimizations, Splashtop has been shown in performance benchmarks to deliver up to 15x higher video frame rates and up to 10x lower latency times than its competition. Splashtop […]